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Eighty-four years ago, on March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem of the United States. Hoover's signature on the congressional decree made official what had been unofficial for years, and other patriotic songs with huge fan bases — "My Country Tis of Thee," "Hail Columbia," "America, the Beautiful," etc. — were left forever in the margins. Marc Ferris of Greenwich wants March 3 to become a day set aside by the federal government annually to commemorate the song. He has approached U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-4th District, with a request that March 3 be declared National Anthem Day and...

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Eighty-four years ago, on March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem of the United States. Hoover's signature on the congressional decree made official what had been unofficial for years, and...

Six-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald and her spouse Tony Award-nominee Will Swenson will star in Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer in the Massachusetts Berkshires.The production...

The Canton Historical Museum has been the beneficiary of a collection of artwork by the late Nancy Douglass Cloutier, a well-known Canton artist and long time member of the Canton Gallery on the Green. A reception and sale of her work, unframed and...

Willimantic - Fourteen students at ACT, EASTCONN's arts magnet high school, have won recognition for their writing in the 2015 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards contest, a prestigious national program that has supported teenagers' artistic development...

Patrick Rosal, an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden and the author of four full-length poetry collections, will read and discuss his work at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25, in the Kresge Lecture Hall located in the Echlin Center at...

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The Annual Author Series at Renbrook School will host a free talk on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 6:30 p.m. by New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline and novelist Kate Manning. Kara Sundlun, co-host of WFSB's Better Connecticut and anchor of...

TOLLAND - Teenaged writers will perform original poems and compete for prizes on Thursday, March 5 when the Tolland Public Library Foundation holds its fourth annual poetry slam. The Foundation and the Tolland Public Library are sponsoring the slam...

Mark Twain's international travels and what they taught him will be explored in the spring series of free talks and readings called "The Trouble Begins at 5:30" at The Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford. The events...

FARMINGTON — The town's Hill-Stead Museum was recently awarded a $50,000 grant to go toward its annual Sunken Garden Poetry Festival.The grant was awarded by Connecticut Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities that...

Among twenty snowy mountains, / The only moving thing/ Was the eye of the blackbird.
— Wallace Stevens
In the second stanza of Connecticut poet Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," Stevens has his narrator say, "I...

GLASTONBURY — The town has decided to go ahead with appointing a poet laureate.Over the next few months, a committee made up of members of the fine arts commission, library board and town council will meet to determine the duties of the poet laureate...

Elaine H. Leone, 84, spent 70 years writing before she first tried to become a published author.That happened in 2012, when the lifelong Manchester resident's first children's book, "The Grandies," was published.The book is a collection of 100...

A biography of famous Revolutionary War era traitor Benedict Arnold and a guide for collectors of a Chinese game that has intrigued countless Americans will be discussed by their authors at R.J. Julia Booksellers, 768 Boston Post Road, Madison. Both talks...

Books on food, fantasy, President John F. Kennedy, a memoir and some new novels will be discussed by their authors at free events at R.J. Julia Booksellers, 768 Boston Post Road, Madison. All require reservations: 203-245-3959 or www.rjjulia.com.
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The Killingworth Library will host a reading and book signing by Sara Ingram, local poet, on Thursday, February 26 at 7 pm. Ms. Ingram published Sounds of House and Wood in 2013 and plans to present the "stories behind the poems" which include...

David Mallett, a renowned folk troubadour from Maine, sings and writes memorable songs celebrating the rural life in his beloved home state, the sacredness of the Earth, the wonders of nature and the transcendent significance of the lives of ordinary...

After Mystic author, Tish Rabe, penned more than 150 tales for tots, many stories about Clifford and Curious George, she wanted to create a signature character, all her own. "I wrote a rhyming book about a dinosaur. Maurus O'Roarus was a...

Award-winning poet Benjamin Grossberg, who serves as director of creative writing and associate professor of English at the University of Hartford, will give a reading at Westminster School Jan. 16 as a part of the school's Friday Nights in Gund, a series...